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City of Lino Lakes Park Board Meeting February 5, 1996 have been met. The new school will have three gymnasiums and a possible community wellness area. His initial impression is we are in very tight competition with the Centennial Basketball Association for the use of these areas. At this time we are pursuing the first prefer- ence idea for at least one of these gymnasiums. There are several sport elements in the outdoor site plan some of which will help us and some of which are exclusively school district. For example the track and field facility would be fenced, controlled and maintained by the school district. The facility does offer .the city the opportunity to reassign some'of our existing ballfields that we are presently using for adults to youth uses, since we would have two adult (300 foot) fields next to each other in the new site. After looking at the field reassignments youth could gain the use of Lino Park and field number 3 at Rice Lake Elementary. We would in effect gain one adult softball field to our system. The multi -use athletic field on the southwest side of the site would come out because of room and safety concerns in relation to the freeway. The two hockey rinks on the plan would probably become one with a free -skating area, and may not be built initially. All of the athletic fields are needed by the school district for their ownrprograms. The legion field on the northeast corner of the site is being built for community needs. Space is tight because of the wetlands on the athletic complex site. In his opinion this would be complementary to our needs. A trail would loop through this facility and into a trail down Elm Street and along a proposed road on Fourth Avenue heading to the north linking into the regional park. The joint useagreementlanguage writing is with the super- intendents office. We do not have anything at this time. The economic issues are clear to him (were short of money) and he presented this to the superintendent. John McClellan seemed optimistic that something could be worked out on this and would be talking to Randy Schumacher. As you recall, the city paid for the interior trails overlay and a portion of the underpass at the Rice Lake Elementary School site. 5